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Astronmy
Allan Hills A81005, the first lunar meteorite found on Earth, is discovered in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains by John Schutt and Ian Whillans during the ANSMET meteorite gathering expedition -
Syzygy
all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. -
Medicine
Allen Hill and colleagues at the University of Oxford develop a glucose biosensor -
Medicine
First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production. -
HIV
First reports of HIV as a possible cause of AIDS, by independent virology teams led by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo -
Neptune
Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the solar system. -
live birth
Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. -
Physics
Peter Kramer[3] and Dan Shechtman[4] publish their discoveries of what will soon afterwards be named quasicrystals -
computer science
The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain .com, is registered in the name symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts -
first ozone hole discovered
Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole
